Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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question on java nodes load balancing here or webapps
tune web server backend - custom load balance by customer belongs here?
was not sure when i posted but now i see the tags i wanted are not there but are here !
question to tune back end - where the ...
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Not accepting questions from my account [duplicate]
I asked 6 questions with my account. The first two questions were down voted and closed. But I was able to use my account and I asked more 4 questions. These 4 questions weren't up voted but neither ...
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Where do I post an opening for a freelance AWS Consultant?
I'm looking to hire a freelance AWS consultant to help get me setup on EC2, EBS, RDS, etc. Where would I post this?
I'm assuming it's not in the general SF or SO question feeds.
Thanks for any help.
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I accidentally rejected a suggested edit that should have been approved. What do I do now?
While going through suggested edits I saw one in which it appeared that someone had added random bits of code to someone's question. So I rejected it as a radical change.
Then I took a second look, ...
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Why can't I comment on an answer?
Here's the link: How to monitor Windows host with Nagios?
I want to ask the the person who answered the question to specify the syntax to monitor windows server events, but the add comment box does ...
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Why didn't I get rep for upvotes?
I got two upvotes on this question but no rep from them. I was nowhere near the rep cap for the day, and I can't think of any other reason I wouldn't get the rep.
Why wouldn't I get rep for those ...
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Deleting the `default` tag?
I'm still a bit new about reviewing posts on SE/SF, but after reading some guidelines, I'd like to suggest the deletion of the default tag.
In the recent posts I've reviewed, I felt this tag was not ...
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Why was my question closed as off-topic?
The question is about understanding a failure or fault of an SSD drive that is not total, and not predicted or visible in SMART.
The FAQ for Server Fault says: "Server ... hardware, software ... ...
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Is it possible to reverse an answer accept?
I thought this had been addressed before but if it has I can't find it.
There was a question asked a day or two ago which has what at first site appears to have a good answer. The OP accepted that ...
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Will someone please add this tag? tickzoom
Can someone add the tag tickzoom at stackexchange?
I don't have enough reputation yet to add the tag.
Why? We developers at tickzoom want to track the specific tag tickzoom so we can watch for ...
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Is it OK to ask FTP connection questions here
I'm trying to get a file uploaded using FileZilla and for what ever reasons, can't.
Is this question on topic here?
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extending an already asked question
I have a very similiar question to Multiple Reverse DNS Entries?
Is there a way to extend this question or should I just ask a new one?
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Can you help me formulate a better question (re: server security)
I would like to learn more about how to secure a webserver including topics like which OS to use, what policies to consider, which pieces of OSS are available that can help, what (human) processes are ...
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What's the etiquette for moving a question?
I've asked a question on ServerFault but I (now) suspect DBA may be a better fit. It's shades of gray as usual but now I'm curious.
Should I just repost there and let the question get closed here? ...
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Review guidelines for new and late posts
I have read following posts regarding review tasks
Is it okay to just say “no action needed” if a post in the review queue has already been edited?
What are the limits on using the “no action needed”...
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Who declines flags?
http://cl.ly/image/2Z2q0h222m3a/Screen%20Shot%202013-01-06%20at%2012.33.34.png
I disagree with the person who declined the flag. That post needs to be removed.
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libravatar support?
Is there any way to use gravatar alternatives like libravatar?
Or is it planned?
I've tried searching for "libravatar" in osqa feature requests without success.
Edit : Nothing is wrong with ...
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Question ban :(
Okay I got one really bad question which I can't delete because it has an answer and keep getting downvotes :(
I do not think it's a bad question. The man simply doesn't tell. It may be more ...
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Request to merge tags: [php-fpm] and [php5-fpm]
I noticed recently that some FPM questions are tagged php5-fpm and others php-fpm. I'm not sure there's any useful distinction here, should probably be merged.
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remove ban on asking question but Locked questions
I want to remove my ban on asking questions so I have to edit my questions but my questions are locked and no more edited. They are useless for community but they are not going to delete. Now How I ...
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open/close options affected by question locking?
This question let me notice something I am wondering about: after it has been locked, my option to vote for reopening has disappeared:
Is this really a feature of the question lock which makes sense ...
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This was off-topic ..?
My question about hwclock equivalent was off-topic? Why is that?
hwclock equivalent in Windows server
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What happened to the appearance of the vote count?
I just got back on after a couple of hours away from SF and the vote count and some of the other text is now looking kind of anaemic or anorexic. What happened? Why did it get changed? I don't recall ...
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Tag synonyms between node.js and nodejs
I do not have the reputation on this site to create a tag synonym, so I am suggesting one here between:
node.js
nodejs
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Stack Exchange Icon on IOS
So I'm super sad; the server fault icon has gone from my home screen!
Make it come back?
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User Deleted, but Question remains and user would like to re-associate
In reference to: How to analyse data/voice ratio within a network
I can't tell what happened here, but the user account doesn't exist anymore. The user just asked the question yesterday, it wasn't ...
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Why is my account denied from asking question, what I've done?
I don't really know what poor question I asked! And I don't see any question get downvoted, closed etc.
Anyone can check it out for me? Thx
EDIT
I have a lot of question that doesn't have an ...
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Question about MAC addresses anomaly went wrong by too many editors
This is the question
Connectivity issues when setting guest MAC to the same as the host MAC on ESXi 5
As some of you may see - this question has a little pragmatic problems:
This was not the ...
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Login between sites not linked? Or what am I doing wrong?
I just discovered all of the social features of the site. More importantly I just discovered sister sites like
android.stackexchange
gaming.stackexchange
unix.stackexchange
When I went to android....
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Lost reputation "User was removed"
I have lost 10 rep and I don't know why. The message is "User was removed". What does that mean?
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Question closed by moderator on assumption that it was 'home stuff' which is incorrect!
My question was closed by freiheit because he assumed my question related to 'home stuff' whereas it was very much related to my business and concerns hardware at my business address even! How can I ...
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How to draw attention to a closed question that has been edited so it can be re-opened?
How to draw attention to a closed question that has been edited and is up for a review and possible re-opening?
This information is not in the FAQ. I don't want to be lazy and simply create another (...
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Merge unregistered user account
I read that it is "strongly encouraged" to merge unregistered accounts to registered ones. It seems a little bit odd to me to request this through posting a regular question, but if this really is the ...
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Acceptance rate is wrong
I've looked (conceivably) everywhere, but can't figure out why my acceptance rate on serverfault.com is 86% when I've asked eight questions and accepted an answer for each one. My stackoverflow.com ...
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Go forth and review please
The recent changes to the /review system have helped us to clean up SF somewhat thanks everyone for your support.
Despite several people using their full daily allocation of reviews there is one ...
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"Unflag" a Question?
Any way to unflag a question? I flagged a question (AND left a comment) a bit less than an hour ago, but after my comment, the poster came back and added some good details - but my flag hasn't been ...
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Can ownership of question be manually replaced?
I refer to this question: Command line to list users in a Windows Active Directory group? - once upon a time a driveby question by a user that no longer exists in the system.
The quetsion has ...
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How do you reject a migration?
Further to Michael's recent question and since I couldn't quickly find information on rejecting migrations from SO^H^H other sites...
How do you reject a migration and what happens when you do it?
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Why was a question I answered automatically deleted?
A few minutes ago I noticed the mysterious disappearance of 65 reputation from my Server Fault account. On looking into it, I found that this question, which I'd answered last month, had been deleted. ...
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How can I know why the question was deemed non-constructive (and closed)?
I refer to the question of mine file system that allow to specify different RAID level per directory and change it afterward. Should I ask about this specific problem here on meta? But then, the users ...
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What is the "Helpful Flags" page about?
I noticed a new item on my profile page - Helpful Flags. This links through to a page listing some statistics related to where I have been helpful (or perhaps not). But I'm not quite sure what I am ...
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Tag merge: OWA + Outlook Web Access
owa and outlook-web-access overlap a bit. Should we merge them?
Bumping this again, as I just encountered both a owa and outlook-web-access wiki edit review with nearly identical content. Do tag ...
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No roll-back option on edit
I just noticed this old question received a recent edit. When I examined the edit I noticed that it greatly altered the meaning and context of the question, perhaps to better fit the editor's own ...
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Question closed, but it was a complete question that could be answered
So I have this question, https://serverfault.com/revisions/430754/1, and it got closed.
Here is an forum question related to what I'm asking (this first post tells it all) http://www.webpagetest.org/...
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Another lame question about getting the Legendary or Epic badge
I have lame question #9237 about qualification for the Epic/Legendary badge. As I understand it from reading other questions on this, that the criterion is a day where you exceed 200 reputation by ...
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synonymize tags: 'dhcpd' & 'dhcp-server', and 'isc-dhcp' with 'isc-dhcpd'
Please merge the following tags:
Make dhcpd a synonym of dhcp-server.
Make isc-dhcp a synonym of isc-dhcpd. I just manually cleaned up some posts.
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Answers to locked community wiki questions?
What kind of mail server do you use? is a locked community wiki question/post. What combination of features prevents me from modifying/deleting my answer? Is there a way to flag a locked question ...
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Talk about putting one off chat
It's no big secret that I'm not a fan of chat (anywhere, not just here). However, I find myself in the position of wanting to ask a question that is completely off topic for SF, so figured I'd try ...
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How to revert to default gravatar
I had stuck with my original/default gravatar thinking I may put my face up if I ever hit 10k as that seems to be the done thing round here.
Anyway I thought I would change it when everyone did the ...
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I think I broke the SBS-2008 tag
OK, so after discussions in chat about the future of sbs-2008, I created a tag synonym the wrong way, from sbs-2008 <-- windows-sbs-2008 . Realising I made the wrong one, I went to the mod tools ...
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